. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . us; it is of deal,coeval witli the doorway, and the framework is external, notinternal. The west front of the church stands in a small piazza,on the north side of which is the little church of San PietroMartire, between the east end of which and Sta. Anastasiais a wall dividing a small burial-ground from the Piazzetta ;on the top of this wall, and supported upon corbels, is oneof those monuments peculiarly associated with Verona,because so numerous there, though they are often metwith elsewhere in Italy; they are eit
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . us; it is of deal,coeval witli the doorway, and the framework is external, notinternal. The west front of the church stands in a small piazza,on the north side of which is the little church of San PietroMartire, between the east end of which and Sta. Anastasiais a wall dividing a small burial-ground from the Piazzetta ;on the top of this wall, and supported upon corbels, is oneof those monuments peculiarly associated with Verona,because so numerous there, though they are often metwith elsewhere in Italy; they are either large pyramidal 92 VERONA. [Chap. VI. canopies supported upon trefoiled arches resting on fourmarble shafts, with a kind of sarcophagus or an effigybeneath ; or else, when attached to a wall, they have twodetached shafts supporting the same kind of trefoiled archand surmounted by a flattish pediment. Their efiect isalmost invariably beautiful in the extreme, and their onlydefect is, that they all require to be held together by rods 1-TmfTnrm-iT —— Tj™.TTiinm-n[^^. Doon-rnAME—STA. anaptasta. of iron connecting the capitals of the columns. This,however, is soon forgotten when one feels that there is nopretence ever or anywhere at its concealment; and notwith-standing this slight defect, one cannot help loving andadmiring them ; for there is a grace and beauty about theform and proportion of the Veronese trefoiled arch, such asis never seen, I think, elsewhere, and the very flatness ofthe carving and the absence of deep moulding seem alladopted in order that nothing may interfere with the simplebeauty of the outline of the arch. In this case the monu-ment is supported on a large slab of stone corbelled forwardand balanced upon the top of a thin wall over the archway Chap. VI.] SAN PIETRO. 93 wliicli leads into the eliurchyartl of San Pietro. Four shaftswith sculptured capitals, resting on the angles of this slab,support four trefoiled arches, (those at the ends narrowe
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